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02-17-2017 to 02-17-2017 - Loyola University presents Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Marsha Norman’s 1977 Broadway debut. Getting Out follows a young Arlene who has just been released after living the first decade of her adult life in prison. Accosted by the unexpected starkness of the outside world, she must again confront a past she thought she had already conquered as she struggles to assume her new identity as a free woman.

*Theatre Week tickets for this production are SOLD OUT. Full price tickets may still be available. Visit the theatre's website for more information. Follow @ChicagoPlays on Twitter or #CTW16 for inventory updates.*

When love is in the air, what could be more romantic than an intimate musical conversation? Romantic Duos explores the translation of great conversation into resplendent melody. Strauss wrote his Sonata for violin and piano when he was falling in love with his future wife, and his romantic impulses are clear in this work. Debussy’s evocative Syrinx for solo flute captures the sadness and longing of unrequited love in Pan’s pursuit of the elusive nymph Syrinx. Hindemith composed his Sonata for oboe and piano as part of his efforts to write sonatas for virtually every instrument of the orchestra, resulting in musical portraits of each instrument’s unique colors and tonalities. The concert concludes with the Chicago premiere of Dana Wilson’s luminous Gold Mosaic for flute, oboe, and piano, whose nature the composer says is akin to “holy fire.”

02-12-2017 to 02-17-2017 - Having danced for nine U.S. presidents, headlined shows all over the world, and appeared in every major television show, nightclub, and theater in America, the Nicholas brothers danced their way into the hearts of millions with successful careers spanning sixty years. Appearing at segregated clubs in the 1930s and in music videos in the 1990s, Fayard and Harold Nicholas dismantled racial barriers and became the most famous dance team of the twentieth century. My Brother‟s Keeper (The Story of the Nicholas Brothers) will showcase the power and excitement of these two dazzling men and share a joyous story with the audience.

Sunday, February 12, 2017: 3:00 PM
Friday, February 17, 2017: 8:00 PM

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02-17-2017 to 02-17-2017 - On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost, Maine find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend – almost – in this delightful midwinter night’s dream about romantic relationships.
Friday, February 10, 2017: 7:30 PM SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 11, 2017: 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 12, 2017: 2:00 PM SOLD OUT

Friday, February 17, 2017: 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 18, 2017: 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 19, 2017: 2:00 PM SOLD OUT

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02-10-2017 to 02-17-2017 - An all star cast of pH performers takes the rules of our favorite party and board games and turns them into hilarious improv shows with the audience's help. What are games but a series of rules, right? Those very rules will dictate everything we do on stage! Six crazy characters trapped in a house? Sounds like Clue. An evening of silent comedy? That reminds me of Charades. A whole cast coming down with improvised dysentery? Wow! Just like Oregon Trail!
Friday, February 10, 2017: 8:00 PM

Friday, February 17, 2017: 8:00 PM

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“A mathematician, like a painter, or a poet, is a maker of patterns … and beauty is the first test.”

The long-awaited Chicago premiere of this exquisite, internationally acclaimed play about love, math, and how the past and future connect. In 1913, a clerk in rural India named Srinivasa Ramanujan sends a letter to famed mathematician G.H. Hardy, filled with astonishing mathematical theorems. In the present, a math professor and a businessman fall in love. Told in a whirlwind of vignettes spanning history and time, A Disappearing Number is a love letter to numbers, blending the beauty of everyday relationships with the mysticism of the cosmos.

Winner of the 2007 Critics’ Circle Theatre, Evening Standard, and Laurence Olivier awards for Best New Play, TimeLine’s production of A Disappearing Number is a new and rare staging of this mesmerizing play that the Chicago Tribune raved “explodes with so much intellectual stimulus it makes you giddy, thrilled, intoxicated, ready to talk.”

02-16-2017 to 02-16-2017 - Rob Gordon, a Chicago record shop owner in his thirties obsessed with making top five lists for everything, is always observing rather than participating in life. When his girlfriend Laura leaves him, he goes through a painful re-evaluation of his life and lost loves (with a little help from his music) and he slowly learns that he has to grow up and let go of his self-centered view of the world before he can find real happiness.

Friday, February 10, 2017: 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 11, 2017: 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 12, 2017: 6:00 PM SOLD OUT

Thursday, February 16, 2017: 8:00 PM
Friday, February 17, 2017: 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 18, 2017: 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 19, 2017: 6:00 PM SOLD OUT

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02-16-2017 to 02-18-2017 - Step back in time to Chicago’s long lost magic-bar era, and become immersed in a night full of close-up magic, bar magic, table hopping magicians, and main stage acts. The Uptown Underground transforms itself into the Chicago Magic Lounge every Thursday and Saturday night.

On Saturdays after the main show, join in on an exclusive, 40 seat only experience, called the Close Up Gallery. Inspired by the legendary Magic Castle in LA, and Magic Circle in London, we invite you to sit alongside a magician in the Starlight Lounge or an intimate look at close-up magic. No stage, just a table and 20 chairs. This is a peek into the real world of underground, close-up, table magic.

Chicago Magic Lounge is recommended for those 18 years of age and older.

King Ferdinand of Navarre’s “no fun” edict includes scholarly endeavors, quiet contemplation and complete commitment to chastity for three entire years. His closest courtiers reluctantly sign on. But this is a comedy and it doesn’t take long for everyone to figure out that the whole thing is a bad idea and rules are meant to be broken—especially when the French Princess and her beautiful entourage arrive on the scene. The young men’s studies soon give way to secret letters and amorous vows as the women set out to teach the men a thing or two about love. The puns fly and the playwright’s wordplay take flight in this witty satire about young love with a surprising conclusion where real-life lessons are suddenly revealed. Former Artistic Director of Canada’s Stratford Festival Marti Maraden returns to Chicago Shakespeare to stage this charming comedy, following her celebrated productions of Much Ado About Nothing and Othello.

Thursday, February 9, 2017: 7:30 PM SOLD OUT
Friday, February 10, 2017: 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 11, 2017: 7:30 PM SOLD OUT

02-15-2017 to 02-16-2017 - Traveling storytellers Mr. and Mrs. Pennyworth captivate audiences with spell-binding tales. But one day, The Big Bad Wolf mysteriously dies before his story is complete. Fairytales disappear from the pages, characters are utterly forgotten, and Mr. and Mrs. Pennyworth must journey through the stories to restore order before they are lost forever.

Written and directed by Ensemble Member Doug Hara, this world-premiere weaves an exceptional story of adventure, love, and unexpected endings. Influenced by Neil Gaiman and other fantasy writers, Mr. and Mrs. Pennyworth is brought to life through the wondrous puppetry of Blair Thomas and reveals the transformational power of storytelling.

Thursday, February 9, 2017: 7:30 PM
Friday, February 10, 2017: 7:30 PM SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 11, 2017: 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 12, 2017: 2:00 PM SOLD OUT and 7:30 PM

Wednesday, February 15, 2017: 7:30 PM
Thursday, February 16, 2017: 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM
Friday, February 17, 2017: 7:30 PM SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 18, 2017: 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 19, 2017: 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM SOLD OUT

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02-09-2017 to 02-16-2017 - When she is diagnosed with a fatal illness, Anna decides to accompany her brother Carl on a whirlwind tour of Europe. Not everything is as it seems as spies in trench coats, crazy doctors, and an ever-present stuffed rabbit begin to intrude into the narrative. Will Anna and Carl’s adventure be Anna’s salvation, or end in tragedy?​

02-09-2017 to 02-16-2017 - Since Homer, we’ve been telling stories about how we kill each other. Even before Homer: if theater was born through dance and storytelling around a paleolithic fire, it was to tell stories of the hunt, the fight, the clash, the kill.

In the US, 90 people are shot every day. In 2016, 15,010 lives were taken by firearms (per gunviolencearchive.org). America’s fascination with guns, the spectacular terror of mass shootings, the bloodletting in its inner cities, and the power over life and death that a gun confers make up the sinews of The Ghoul Exhibition, a show that asks not just how, but why we kill each other.

Created and performed by Héctor Álvarez, The Ghoul Exhibition uses original and pre-existing texts, and a mix of physical theater, song, storytelling and audience participation to craft a dangerously intimate and unexpected dramatic experience that pushes the boundaries of the one-man show form. The result is a gripping and at times painfully funny catalogue of five stories. These include a teenage romance turned high school carnage, a modern day auto-da-fé for a white cop charged with the murder of a black teenager, and a screwball fable where mosquitos wield Beretta blue semiautomatics and orangutans scour the web for ammunition to fashion their deadly legacy.

Amidst all this madness, the gun glows like a talisman, shedding light on larger themes of race, rage and retribution; but ultimately, The Ghoul Exhibition seeks to create community with its audience, heal our hurts, foster forgiveness, and celebrate the resilience of our shared humanity.

The production was originally presented by The Tank, a New York City home for emerging artists.

Thursday, February 9, 2017: 9:00 PM

Thursday, February 16, 2017: 9:00 PM

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02-09-2017 to 02-19-2017 - An unruly bunch of bright, funny boys in a British Grammar school are in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university-generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and by a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling. In this 2006 Tony Award Winner, The History Boys raises not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education today.

A young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, triggering an interrogation into the darkest corners of the imagination and the most basic of human desires. The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion; a beautiful escape that ultimately begs some very serious questions about responsibility, connectivity and love. Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2011-2012.

Thursday, February 9, 2017: 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Friday, February 10, 2017: 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 11, 2017: 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 12, 2017: 3:00 PM

02-09-2017 to 02-16-2017 - *Theatre Week tickets for this production are SOLD OUT. Full price tickets may still be available. Visit the theatre's website for more information. Follow @ChicagoPlays on Twitter or #CTW17 for inventory updates.*

Blue Man Group is comedy, theater, rock concert and dance party all rolled into one. This wildly popular phenomenon delivers an unforgettable multi-sensory experience that has captivated 35 million people worldwide. Don’t miss Blue Man Group - enemy of monotony, remedy for boredom, promoter of overjoy and elation. DARE TO LIVE IN FULL COLOR

Please note this offer is for obstructed balcony seats.

Thursday, February 9, 2017: 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Friday, February 10, 2017: 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 11, 2017: 2:00 PM , 5:00 PM , and 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 12, 2017: 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM SOLD OUT

Tuesday, February 14, 2017: 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Thursday, February 16, 2017: 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Friday, February 17, 2017: 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 18, 2017: 2:00 PM, 5:00 PM, and 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 19, 2017: 1:00PM, 4:00PM, and 7:00 PM SOLD OUT

02-15-2017 to 02-15-2017 - Second City is proud to present this in-your-face indictment of the modern condition. Millennial social media dilemmas, D-bags on dates, and auto-tuned relationships are just a few of the targets this amazingly talented ensemble takes on. The struggle is fake, folks, but the comedy is oh so real. Buy tickets and chill.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2017: 7:00 PM

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02-15-2017 to 02-18-2017 - About Face continues its 21st season with the Chicago premiere of The Temperamentals, Jon Marans' Off Broadway hit about the founding of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained LGBT rights organization in the U.S., and the love affair of two of its founding members, Harry Hay and fashion designer Rudi Gernreich. Taking its title from 1950’s slang for “homosexual,” Marans' play examines what it took to stand up in the sea of grey flannel suits and demand your humanity, your visibility and your rights.